Prologue

It has been several years since the Gutsy Galaxy Guard's and Guy Shishioh's victory over The 11 Planetary Masters of Sol. They sacrificed their own lives to allow their youngest allies, Mamoru and Kaidou, to live on in the original Universe, because the Repli-Universe that they had been fighting in was soon to be collapse on them. Unwilling to forget, through these twenty-five years, both Mamoru and Kaidou have worked with the remaining factions of the GGG, so that the legend of not only Guy and the GGG, but also J, would live on.

Determined to succeed in this goal, they began to cast aside some of their human emotions, forcing women to give birth to children whose embryos were infused with G-Stone technology, working towards the goal of creating a complete race of Evoluders. Despite all their hard work, they failed almost all of their attempts to create even one Evoluder successfully, most of the babies being born with disfiguring features and/or no sign of any change in their DNA. One exception was one child who was born with minor alterations to his DNA, the GGG, Mamoru, and Kaidou deciding to take this boy in and raise him as their own, in hopes that one day he would be the one to fulfill what they had been wishing for.

1 - The Wild Cat's Cry

"Even though we were exiled from Earth, we came here with no doubts. We're the heroes, aren't we?!" - Guy Shishioh

A young boy with lightly tanned skin carefully sat down at a table in the middle of the room. It was exceptionally large, considering a lot of cafeterias in schools, and had buffets with any kind of food that you could imagine, one at each corner of the room. He checked his plate, which was clean with the exception of a little bit of sauce and a few crumbs, and decided to fill it up again, which he hadn't considered when he had gotten up to get a drink from one of the taps. Picking up his near-clean plate, he got up as carefully as he had sat down, as to not draw any unnecessary attention to himself. As he walked passed all of the other tables packed tightly with both men and women, it seemed as though his effort was going to waste, because with every table he passed, another few people would be pointing at him and whispering to their friend next to them. Before he could make it to one of the buffets, a tall, healthy looking man with dark brown hair that fell between his eyes stepped imposingly in front of him.

"Make sure you get to testing on time, Cainto, or there'll be some big punishment," The man smiled. He couldn't keep a straight face for very long, let alone a serious tone. He put his hand on Cainto's head and ruffled his jet-black hair up a bit. "Like you ever would, not when you have me making excuses for you all the time," He glanced up at the clock, beginning to step away slowly, raising his hand to say goodbye. "I have to go now, or I'll be late myself!" He began to trot towards the exit of the large cafeteria. "Try to make it on time, got it?"

"Of course, Captain Mamoru," Cainto waved back, watching the man trot away. He was wearing uniform for a male in the GGG, which stood for Gutsy Galaxy Guard, a white jumpsuit with black stripes down the side, white gloves, white boots, and an open orange vest. It looked fun to wear, and comfortable, but it had always reminded Cainto of pain, because the only time that he ever wore it was during his testing time. Cainto was an Evoluder, the only of his kind, but not the first, he was told. He had close relationships with the two Captains of the GGG, the one who had just left, Mamoru Amami, and the other, who usually recorded the data of Cainto's tests and who he otherwise never saw, Kaidou Ikumi.

Cainto picked his food from the buffet and sat down down to eat, and before he knew it he was already ten minutes late for his daily testing session. He decided to disregard being cautious, hurriedly getting up and rushing for the exit, stopping only to drop his plate in the sink. After sprinting for almost three minutes, he finally made it. Above the door it read 'Testing in Progress', with the light that was supposed to light up the letters turned off. Pushing the door open slowly, Cainto tried to sneak his way into the room unnoticed, and was halted by a sudden shriek-like yelling.

"Where have you been, Cainto?! Don't even answer, I'm sure you'll just make up another excuse that I'll be forced to believe," A woman with short, pink hair, who seemed to be 19, around Cainto's age, who had yelled at Caito, was pointing at a couple of hangers, which had his uniform on them. "Suit up. You're definitely going to need it today." Cainto sighed, dragging his feet over to the other side of the room, slowly starting to slip off his clothing. The woman noticed, and turned away quickly. "Tell me before you do that, I'm a woman even if you don't see me that way!"

"Sorry, Seroan," Cainto apologized, smirking as he finished changing clothes. Like always, at first he felt a little restricted in the apparel, but after a few minutes of stretching, he felt back to normal, and it was a lot easier to move around. Cainto started towards the room that he usually was in during his tests, and began to look around the room. All of the consoles were unmanned, and it was empty aside from himself and Seroan, which was extremely strange, because every other time he had ever gone to his testing, the room was lit up and full of people running around with data, though now it was dimly lit and deserted. He was almost to the room when Seroan seized his hand and began leading him to the other exit of the testing room.

"You won't be testing in there today. This time, we'll be doing it outside," She pulled him all the way to the door, and typed in the emergency exit code, which was the only way the lock would release for the sliding door to open. She pressed enter, and the door slid open cleanly, Cainto shielding his eyes from the immediate light that poured into the room with his free hand. He quickly dropped his hand to his side at what he saw, his mouth agape and his eyes widened. An extremely large, animal-looking object was sitting out on the newly paved asphalt, with all of the people that he usually saw in the testing room standing around it, except for Mamoru and Kaidou.

"What...what exactly is this?" Cainto asked Seroan, his eyes still wide and his arm hanging limply at his side. She turned to him and smiled, simply leading him towards the object instead of responding. She seemed excited, so Cainto immediately was sure that she knew exactly what was going on. When they came within a little more than a hundred yards of the object, it became easier to see, and Cainto's eyes seemed to pop out of their sockets. It was a mechanoid, not in human form, but in the form of an animal, more specifically a feral-type animal. "This..." He began, being quickly cut off by another voice.

"Welcome, Cainto Leopardo," Cainto was unfamiliar with his voice, and looked up to where it was coming from, on top of the mechanoid's head. He immediately recognized the two people standing there as Captain Mamoru and Captain Kaidou, and since the voice he heard was unfamiliar, he assumed that it was Kaidou that had spoken to him. "Today," Kaidou began, confirming who Cainto had thought was speaking, "you will be using the Fusion technique with this mechanoid."

"Are you serious?!" Cainto's mouth closed and formed a toothy grin, his eyes glinting in the sun as he continued to stare up at the two Captains, one of whom he looked up to as a father. The top of his left hand began to glow green, and Seroan let go of it. A distinct 'G' symbol appeared on it, and his golden eyes began to glow slightly with the same hint of green. Suddenly, the eyes of the mechanoid, which Cainto had finally confirmed as an animal of the cat family, began to glow bright green in response to his glowing. Mamoru and Kaitou jumped down off of its head, pulling their chute cords midway from the ground, slowly gliding down and landing beside Cainto and Seroan.

"Of course," Mamoru ruffled Cainto's hair in the same fashion as he did earlier, "you've earned it." He motioned for Seroan to hand him something that she had, which was wrapped in cloths, and he unwrapped it slowly. It was a helmet, which seemed to be golden, or at least it was polished very well. It had two short antennae-type protrusions coming from the top, which formed a V-shape in the front, leaving the top of the helmet open, and it came down over your ears and had two side pieces that curved upwards and in once they reached the bottom of your face. "You'll be wearing this...it's an heirloom. You'll be wearing this and the rest of the armor set over your uniform." Mamoru punched Cainto in the arm playfully and grinned when he saw he was pouting about having to wear something so out of the ordinary. "And once you've done Fusion, you can name him." Cainto's smile exploded, and he snatched the helmet from Mamoru, fitting it on top of his head. It was surprisingly a perfect fit, like it was made for him, even though it was an heirloom, like Mamoru said.

"So, where's the rest?!" Cainto asked in excitement. Mamoru chuckled, looking Cainto up and down.

"The spitting image..." He whispered to himself.